The Patrick Henry papers (being all his letters and papers during the Revolutionary War, and up to the time of his death, preserved by his family) ...
Subtitle: to be sold Tuesday afternoon and evenings, Dec. 20, 1910
By: catalogue compiled and sale conducted by Stan. V. Henkels
Contributors: Henkels, S. V. (Stanislaus Vincent), 1854-1926, auctioneer
Publisher: Samuel T. Freeman & Co.
Published: 1910
Place of publication: Phila
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 699 lots.

"Catalogue no. 1021."

"The original ivory miniature of Patrick Henry, taken from life in 1791.  The original oil portrait of Patrick Henry, painted by Thos. Sully. His secretary, the chair in which he died, his walking stick, shoe buckles, solid silver caster, &c.  Also, for other accounts, important historical letters of generals in the Revolution and signers of the Declaration, bearing on important events, and many describing the campaigns around Philadelphia and Trenton.  Letters of members of the Continental Congress, officers in the Revolution and Civil War.  Presidents of the United States and their cabinets, authors, crowned heads, &c., including fine letters of George and Martha Washington.  And, oil portraits of Col. Robert Knox, of the Philadelphia battalion in the Revolution, and wife, by Charles Willson Peale, and Lord Fairfax's high case clock."

McKay,c6912

Place of sale: Philadelphia.

Date of sale: December 20, 1910.